The agency of faith-based NGOs in Turkish humanitarian aid policy and practice

Turhan, Yunus; Bahçecik, Şerif Onur

doi:10.1080/14683849.2020.1756786

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“…In doing so they are able to shape agenda-setting on where and how statist capital ought to be directed in the humanitarian field. 60 The same legitimacy has not been afforded to organizations critical of the ambiguous and at times contradictory policies of the Turkish state that frames Syrian refuge as temporary. 61 The inconsistent position of the Turkish state towards forced migrants can be characterized by the legal status of Syrian refugees being regulated by the 2013 Law of Foreigners and International Protection Act (LFIP) and the Directive of Regulation on Temporary Protection issued the following year.…”

Section: Muslim Responses To Displacement: the Nation-state And Ngos ...mentioning

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‘You Won’t Find Religion Here’: The (In)Visibility of Muslim Responses to Situations of Mass Displacement

Zaman

2022

The Muslim World

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This article considers why despite mass displacement significantly affecting people from Muslim majority countries, Islamic understandings of refuge, protection and assistance remain de-centered and made peripheral in formulations of asylum and refuge. The paper begins with an interrogation of how knowledge production on Muslim life-worlds a priori gives emphasis to certain essential characteristics identified as Muslim. It is argued that this collapses understandings of the diversity of being and 'doing' Muslim in ways that make less visible everyday lived experiences attuned to the materiality, affect and emotion prompted by readings of Islamic tradition in displacement settings. To do so, I draw on Syrian experiences of displacement in Turkey and Greece to parse out the implications of this (in)visibility for Muslim responses to mass-displacement and question whether they can be substantively different to modalities of humanitarianism and development anchored in liberal European ontologies. It is argued that by being attentive to the structures of feeling prompted by Islamic traditions pertaining to refuge and protection reveals ways of being and doing Islam outside of statist readings of humanitarianism. Here, the Islamic tradition of jiwār (a right of and to neighbourliness) provides a decolonial vocabulary to respond to state-defined patterns of hospitality rooted in European knowledge production.The author would like to thank Nermeen Mouftah and Abbas Barzegar for their invaluable comments, patience, and support in the drafting of this article.

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Section: Muslim Responses To Displacement: the Nation-state And Ngos ...mentioning

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‘You Won’t Find Religion Here’: The (In)Visibility of Muslim Responses to Situations of Mass Displacement

Zaman

2022

The Muslim World

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“…Arising from the recalibration of Turkish foreign policy, this feature aimed to achieve a common goal by engaging NGOs, think‐tanks, business circles, and philanthropic organizations, among others, in different geographical regions. As a part of this policy, the AKP attempted to ease the financial, bureaucratic, and administrative burdens of civil society actors in their overseas aid activities with the adoption of the new legal framework of the Law on Associations in 2005 (Turhan & Bahçecik, 2021, p. 146). Therefore, the new aid strategy injected a grassroots perspective into Turkish ODA, which saw itself transform considerably and gain huge popular support.…”

Section: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (Tdam)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Broadly speaking, the current literature focusing on Turkey’s foreign aid has pursued one of two main directions (Turhan & Bahçecik, 2021, p. 143). The first group of scholars addresses Turkey’s foreign aid scope, sectoral allocations, actors, and its divergence from other counterparts based on a policy‐oriented framework within the context of emerging donors (Akpınar, 2013; Aras, 2017; Aras & Akpinar, 2015; Fidan & Nurdun, 2008; Kulaklıkaya & Nurdun, 2010; Zengin & Korkmaz, 2019).…”

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Turkey as an emerging donor in the development community: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (TDAM)

Turhan

2021

Development Policy Review

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Motivation: Over the past two decades, development communities have been intensively discussing the development assistance provided by emerging donors. Among these donors, although a relative newcomer to the development scene, Turkey has cut a distinctive figure, portraying itself as a great emerging power of its own accord. Purpose: Though the modality of Turkish aid is paraded in the scholarly literature, this growing interest does not specifically explore the catch-all term of "Turkish-type development assistance model" (TDAM), developed for Turkish official development assistance (ODA) in 2016 to address the geopolitical, cultural, and religious landscape in a larger context. This article examines TDAM hitherto uncharted terrain, scrutinizing its patterns, characteristics, content, and modality. Methods and approach: Applying an interpretive analytical framework allied with critical discourse analysis. Findings: This article concludes that the concept of TDAM renders inclusive, cost-effective, horizontal, peer-based, and solidarity-oriented aid relations with the recipient. Juxtaposed with the "virtuous power" paradigm of Turkey, this article reveals four main characteristics of TDAM that separate it from other emerging donors: a multitrack approach, a "human face" emphasis, the proximity of recipients, and a new discourse. Policy implications: Turkish-type debates about the changing landscape of development aid with a more critical analytical approach offer insights for broader development studies. A powerful engagement of Turkish foreign aid within an emerging donor landscape could be a new modality for the development community, thus the analysis of TDAM in this research hints at why this is the case or how this might matter for the evolving politics of aid.

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“…The consideration of non-state actors as capable of influencing foreign policy and formulating demands is the result of a break with the traditional conception that states are the only legitimate actors (Voltolini 2016;Turhan and Bahçecik 2020). The theory of constructivism has revealed the production of new frames in which NSAs both have an influence and are, in turn, influenced by other non-state and state actors.…”

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The role of non-state actors in the exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources

Ojeda-García

2021

The Journal of North African Studies

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This article examines the influence of non-state actorsparticularly nongovernmental organisationson major import companies, investors, and transporters of Sahrawi natural resources, as well as the bodies of the European Union, its member states, the Polisario Front and, additionally, other non-state actors. The aim is to determine whether these actors have had an impact on changing the strategy of the Polisario Front with respect to its demands, reinforcing the movement's focus on safeguarding the natural resources of the territory of Western Sahara, protecting them against exploitation, and ensuring that they benefit the Sahrawi people. To that end, the study analyses the actions of non-state actors, the frames they employ, and the levels where they operate. Thanks to more than 20 interviews conducted with the heads of a variety of non-state actors, new research questions have arisen at the same time that awareness has been raised about the importance of renewable resources as an additional object of the claims made by both the Polisario Front and non-governmental organisations.

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The agency of faith-based NGOs in Turkish humanitarian aid policy and practice

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

‘You Won’t Find Religion Here’: The (In)Visibility of Muslim Responses to Situations of Mass Displacement

‘You Won’t Find Religion Here’: The (In)Visibility of Muslim Responses to Situations of Mass Displacement

Turkey as an emerging donor in the development community: The Turkish‐type Development Assistance Model (TDAM)

The role of non-state actors in the exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources

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